(1)The Ministry shall cause to be prepared and laid before Parliament an annual statement containing for the year to which it relates particulars of all prospecting licences, sales of estates in mines and minerals, mining leases, mining licences, mining permissions and mining facilities permits granted by the Ministry in that year.
(2)The Ministry shall prepare a register containing particulars of all notices published by the Ministry under section 11(3), 20(2), 31(1) or 37(1), or paragraph 1, 2, 3 or 10 of Schedule 2, and the register—
(a)shall be open for inspection by any person at all reasonable hours, and
(b)with respect to any such notice, shall be maintained by the Ministry until the expiration of a period of five years from the last date of publication of that notice.